[OSM-talk] bbox download problems

[Rob Reid]

Robin Paulson wrote the following on 24/12/2007 13:25:
> i've been trying to download a subset of the osm data, for auckland,
> as detailed at:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi#All_Elements
>
> wget -O auckland.osm
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=174.4,-37.2,174.9,-36.7]
>
> is the command i used, but i get first an error about wildcards not
> being accepted (is this a wget error?), but even if i replace the *
> with 'node' i get a 501 error. is this really an error on the server,
> or have i stuffed up the command? if so, can someone help me with the
> syntax of the command?
>   
AFAIK osmxapi is still down, see this thread on the tiles at home list:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/2007-December/001715.html

Cheers

Rob